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This black-and-white image shows two fresh trenches, one on top of each other, into whitish soil exposed by Spirit's dragging right front wheel. To the left of them is a normal track that barely penetrates the surface and is as dark gray as the wind-rippled sand all around.

Spirit

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Trench

Martian soils are a study in contrasts, as Spirit discovered when a stuck wheel dug a trench into white soil buried beneath a dark veneer.

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Click on this image to see larger view of 'Sunset'.

Sunset

25.8 %

Click on this image to see larger view of 'Dazzling Dunes'.

17.6 %

Click on this image to see larger view of 'Cape Verde'.

Cape Verde

16.3 %

Click on this image to see larger view of 'Blueberries on Mars'.

Blueberries on Mars

7.5 %

Click on this image to see larger view of 'Wheel Tracks'.

6.8 %

Click on this image to see larger view of 'Perched Above Gusev'.

Perched Above Gusev

6.6 %

Click on this image to see larger view of 'Scylla'.

Scylla

3.5 %

Click on this image to see larger view of 'Airbag Tracks'.

2.5 %

Click on this image to see larger view of 'Lava Meets Wind'.

Lava Meets Wind

2.4 %

Click on this image to see larger view of 'Mazatzal'.

Mazatzal

2.1 %

Click on this image to see larger view of 'Trench'.

Trench

1.9 %

Click on this image to see larger view of 'RAT Holes'.

RAT Holes

1.8 %

Click on this image to see larger view of 'Steep Dunes'.

1.8 %

Click on this image to see larger view of 'Clovis'.

Clovis

1.3 %

Click on this image to see larger view of 'Rub al Khali'.

1.2 %

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Here-a-Hematite

0.9 %